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The Christian warfare wherein is first generally showed the malice, power and politic stratagems…The Christian warfare wherein is first generally shewed the malice, power and politike stratagems…
The Christian warfare wherein is first generally showed the malice, power and politic stratagems of the spiritual enemies of our salvation, Satan and his assistants the world and the flesh, with the means also whereby the Christian may withstand and defeat them : and afterwards more specially their particular temptations, against the several causes and means of our salvation, whereby on the one side they allure us to security and presumption, and on the other side, draw us to doubting and desperation, are expressed and answered : written especially for their sakes who are exercised in the spiritual conflict of temptations, and are afflicted in conscience in the sight and sense of their sins / by I. Downame ...The Christian warfare wherein is first generally shewed the malice, power and politike stratagems of the spirituall ennemies of our saluation, Sathan and his assistants the world and the flesh, with the meanes also whereby the Christian may vvithstand and defeate them : and afterwards more speciallie their particvlar temptatiions, against the seuerall causes and meanes of our saluation, whereby on the one side they allure vs to security and presumption, and on the other side, draw vs to doubting and desperation, are expressed and answered : written especially for their sakes who are exercised in the spirituall conflict of temptations, and are afflicted in conscience in the sight and sense of their sinnes / by I. Dovvname ...
London: printed for Cuthbert Burby, 1604
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
On the other side, if he tempt us to content our selves with the bare hearing thereof, neglecting obedience thereunto, we are to tell him that not the hearers of the word, 1but the doers thereof shall be justified, Rom. 2.13. that they who are hearers of the word and not doers also, do deceive themselves,2 if they think hereby to have any assurance of eternal life, Jam. 1.22. That not every one who saith Lord, Lord, (that is,3 maketh a goodly profession of religion) shall enter into the kingdom of heaven, but he that doth the will of the father who is in heaven. Matth. 7.21.
On the other side, if he tempt vs to content our selues with the bare hearing thereof, neglecting obedience thereunto, we are to tell him that not the hearers of the word, 1but the doers thereof shall be iustified, Rom. 2.13. that they who are hearers of the word and not doers also, doe deceiue themselues,2 if they thinke hereby to haue any assurance of eternall life, Iam. 1.22. That not euery one who saith Lord, Lord, (that is,3 maketh a goodly profession of religion) shall enter into the kingdome of heauen, but he that doth the will of the father who is in heauen. Matth. 7.21.
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